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Genesis 17:4

אֲנִי הִנֵּה בְרִיתִי אִתָּךְ וְ הָיִיתָ לְ אַב הֲמֹון גֹּויִם
`Myself behold, my cut-out-one is את-yourself, and you have become to a father of a Multitude615 of nations.
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Strong’s #1995, הֲמ֥וֹן hamon. Noun masculine singular (feminine in Job 31:34) sound, murmur, roar, crowd, Multitude, abundance. The implication is that a multitude or crowd creates such a noise. Occurs only here in the Law but 83 times elsewhere.

To a voice he gives a Multitude [hamon] of dual-waters in the Dual-Heavens, and he causes to ascend exalted-ones from an extremity of earth, he has made lightnings to the Rain, and he is causing to come in a wind from his storehouses.” Jeremiah 51:16 literal